Amcrest Forum

Melvin, I'm still not seeing any kind of respectable answer from Amcrest as to what is going on. If outside internet access is disabled by the end user for the devices, then the devices SHOULD NOT be trying to otherwise communicate out to the Internet...period. Doing otherwise creates the perception...

http://blog.podsnap.com/amcrest.html Good blog post! This still doesn't explain, (unless I'm missing something?) WHY if you are NOT using cloud services of any kind, the IP2M-841 would be trying to send out? "I fired off a nice email to info@camcloud.com, inquiring about "the methods you ...

This is actually kind of funny. Basically between Amcrest and previous "issues" with Foscam, the only logical conclusion is that both organizations are spying. Their responses (or lack thereof) are a clear indication that they have included suspect networking code in their cameras, and the...

I have four new Amcrest 841B cameras, hooked to my home LAN. I use VPN when away from home, so no need to place them on the internet outside of my VPN. I've set up the four Amcrest + four Insteon (Foscam equivalents) on Static IP addresses (all in a contiguous IP grouping) on my LAN, and have disabl...